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New squad for Melrose Park FD

This from Tony Carlini:

Melrose Park Squad, F650 chassis, Marion Body Works 14’ walk-around rescue setup with shelves trays for extrication and other disciplines
#chicagoareafire.com; #MelroseParkFD; #MarionBodyWorks; #FireTruck;

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Working fire in Melrose Park

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New tower ladder for Melrose Park

From the Fire Service, Inc. Facebook page:

Congratulations to Chief Rick Beltrame, Assistant Chief Jim Wrosch, Captain Frank Islami, and the members of the Melrose Park Fire Department on the recent purchase of their new Emergency One 95′ rear mount aerial. This new aerial comes complete with the following:
E-ONE 95’ extruded aluminum platform
Cummins X12 500 HP engine
Allison EVS4000 transmission
Waterous CSU 1500-GPM-pump
500-gallon booster tank
SideStacker extruded aluminum body with lift-up side access hosebed doors
Whelen Emergency warning lighting package
FireTech HiViz scene lights
#Chicagoareafire.com; #MelroseParkFD; #EONE;

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#Chicagoareafire.com; #MelroseParkFD; #EONE;

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#Chicagoareafire.com; #MelroseParkFD; #EONE;

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Area apparatus orders

Here is a list compiled by Josh Boyajian of current area apparatus on order:

Alsip – Seagrave Engine

Berwyn – E-One Metro 100 Low Profile Ladder

Blue Island – Sutphen 100’ MM Ladder

Bolingbrook – (2) E-One Engines

Buffalo Grove – E-One Engine

Carol Stream – E-One RM Tower Ladder

Cicero – Pierce Impel Engine

Crestwood – (2) Seagrave Engines

Geneva – Pierce Ascendant Ladder

Hampshire – Pierce Enforcer PUC Engine

Joliet – E-One RM Tower Ladder

Lisle Woodridge – Pierce Ascendant MM Tower

Lockport – Seagrave Apollo Tower Ladder

Lombard – Pierce Enforcer Engine

Melrose Park – Pierce Impel Engine

Morton Grove – E-One EMAX Engine

Oak Brook – Pierce Ascendant Ladder

Oak Brook – Pierce Enforcer Engine

Norwood Park – Pierce Ascendant MM Tower

River Grove – Ford E-450 Wheeled Coach Ambo

Skokie – Pierce Enforcer Engine

Stickney – Ford F550 Horton Type 1 Ambo

Sugar Grove – Sutphen Engine

Thornton – Sutphen 75’ MM Ladder

Tri State FPD – Pierce Enforcer Ascendant Ladder

Western Springs – Pierce Saber Engine

Westmont – Pierce Impel Engine

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3-Alarm fire in Stone Park, 9-5-20 (more)

More from the 3-Alarm fire in Stone Park, 9-5-20

Excerpts from chicago.cbslocal.com:

A dozen families were left homeless Saturday after winds fueled a fire that destroyed four residential buildings in the 1800 block of 36th Avenue in Stone Park. By the time the firefighters arrived, three buildings were already in flames. A dozen families – some with young children – were left homeless. 

Investigators believe the fire started on a wooden back porch of one unit. They say winds fueled it, and that quickly made flames jump from one building to the next.

flames from detached garage on fire

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hitting hot spots after a fire

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Melrose Park Fire Department news more)

Excerpts from the cookcountyrecord.com:

A former Melrose Park firefighter has lost his appeal to overturn the decision to terminate his employment for his failure to abide by residency requirements. 

John Cannici argued that he maintained a home in Melrose Park and, therefore, satisfied the requirements under the municipal code that certain employees must live within the boundaries.  In his testimony, he admitted to renting out the house in Melrose Park and lived full time with his family in Orland Park during the three years in question.

Nevertheless, the former firefighter argued that he used the Norwood Street house in Melrose Park as his mailing address, as it was where he would call to pick up bills, bank statements, and his voter registration documents. This argument was rejected by Melrose Park’s board of fire and police commissioners, as well as by Cook County Judge Neil H. Cohen and by a three-justice panel of the Illinois First District Appellate Court. 

Cannici sued the Village of Melrose Park, the board, two of its commissioners, Fire Chief Richard Beltrane, and Mayor Ronald Serpico. He requested that the appeals court overturn the board’s decision, order his reinstatement with back pay, and award him attorney fees, all of which were rejected.

In an opinion written by Justice Cynthia Cobbs, with justices James Fitzgerald Smith and David Ellis concurring, the court found in favor of the board that “cause existed for Cannici’s termination where he admitted that he did not live at the Norwood house for this period of three years.”

The board ruled that “[t]he residency ordinance is not satisfied by virtue of ownership of the property” where “ownership of the property is not required by the ordinance at all.”

In the opinioin, Cobbs wrote: “The Melrose Park ordinance clearly defines resident and residence, and it requires its employees to maintain their status as residents during their employment.” She further stated that the court, in its reasoning, was not going to apply tests in previous residency cases that “conflict with the clearly expressed legislative intent” of the municipality.

“We find that the board properly interpreted and applied the village ordinance and correctly found Cannici in violation of the ordinance due to the three-year period he did not live in his Norwood house during his employment as a village firefighter,” Cobbs wrote.

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New ambulance for Melrose Park FD

From the Fire Service, Inc. Facebook page:

Fire Service, Inc. congratulates the Melrose Park Fire Department (IL) on the delivery of their 4th Wheeled Coach Type III ambulance. This unit’s custom ALS cabinet, Duralite CN 10 compliant interior cabinets, and Per4Max restraints are key elements to the performance and durability that Melrose Park depends on. Whelen M-series warning and interior domes and the new under ride bumper assembly compliment this unit well. Melrose Park will provide the final touch with graphics and it will soon begin servicing the City of Melrose Park for many years to come. We thank the Melrose Park Fire Department administration for the continued trust in Wheeled Coach and Fire Service, Inc. to provide solutions to their needs !

Wheeled Coach Type III ambulance

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Wheeled Coach Type III ambulance

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interior of new Wheeled Coach Type III ambulance

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rear of Wheeled Coach Type III ambulance

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New ambulance for Melrose Park

From the Fire Service, Inc. Facebook page:

Fire Service, Inc. congratulates the Melrose Park Fire Department (IL) on the delivery of their 4th Wheeled Coach Type III ambulance today. This unit’s custom ALS cabinet, Duralite CN 10 compliant interior cabinets , and Per4Max restraints are key elements to the performance and durability that Melrose Park depends on. Whelen M series warning and interior domes and the new underride bumper assembly compliment this unit well. Melrose Park will provide the final touch with graphics and it will soon begin servicing the City of Melrose Park for many years to come. We thank the Melrose Park Fire Department administration for the continued trust in Wheeled Coach and Fire Service, Inc. to provide solutions to their needs !

New Type III Wheeled Coach ambulance for the Melrose Park FD

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Wheeled Coach Type III ambulance

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New Type III Wheeled Coach ambulance for the Melrose Park FD

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interior of new ambulance

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Melrose Park Fire Department news

Excerpts from the CookCountyrecord.com:

A federal appeals court has ruled that the village of Melrose Park was within its rights to fire a firefighter for failing to abide by its residency requirements, dismissing an attempt by the firefighter to claim his termination violated his due process rights. 

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago affirmed the dismissal of due process and equal protection claims filed by John Cannici, a former Melrose Park firefighter, after he was terminated from his position for violating the village’s residency ordinance. Cannici was discharged from his position after Melrose Park found that he was not living in the village full-time.

According to Melrose Park’s village code, each and every officer and employee of the village, unless exempted by this chapter, must be a resident of the village.

The judges found Melrose Park offered Cannici exactly what Illinois law requires in cases of just cause termination: “written charges, a hearing and the opportunity to present evidence” before being fired.

Cannici lived in Melrose Park until 2008, when he bought a home in Orland Park, where his wife and two children lived. Cannici lived in Melrose Park while on duty and spent time with his family on the weekends, thus violating the village’s residency ordinances, according to the village’s Board of Fire and Police Commissioners’ review.

The court disagreed with Cannici’s claims that the review deprived him of a protected interest or violated his equal protection rights.

“In fact, [Cannici’s] counsel brought to our attention that the state court judge has found the administrative review claim in his favor and deferred further proceedings pending this court’s decision,” Judge William J. Bauer wrote in the decision. “Thus, we have no reason to believe Cannici has been deprived of his due process rights.”

The court cited a Supreme Court ruling in its opinion that states that the court has never found the Equal Protection Clause implicated in the specific circumstance where, as here, government employers are alleged to have made an individualized, subjective personnel decision in a seemingly arbitrary or irrational manner.

Thus, the court agreed Cannici’s equal protection clause argument failed.

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New engine for Melrose Park

From the Pierce Flickr page:

Pierce Melrose Park Fire Dept so#30383

new fire engine for the Melrose Park Fire Department

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